crossarchinæ

from The Century Dictionary.

• A subfamily of Viverridæ, including those viverrine quadrupeds, as the mangues and suricates, which have more rounded or ventricose heads, with a more elongate snout, than the ichneumons, and 36 teeth, the false grinders being 3 on each side of each jaw. It is constituted by the genera Crossarchus and Suricata (or Rhyzæna).